Sunday June 23
WET!  We haven't need to use the irrigation system since mid-May.  The one good thing about the bales is that they drain well, so despite having mushrooms each morning (that promptly disappear with any hint of sun), the plants are hanging in there. 

View of the bales from the back door.  It's awesome to just walk a few steps and grab some lettuce and a few radishes-- It's making the prospect of eating salads much more exciting!  You can see the bales are very dark now (and see how pretty those impatiens are:)

Potatoes are one of the crops that supposedly do very well in the bales, and they come out dirt free.  BUT we rarely eat regular potatoes, so we decided to put some sweet potatoes into the side of 2 bales (you can see the second cut of lettuce on the top of the bale to the left, and my chard starting on top of the bale to the right). I just popped them in today, so once again, we'll wait and see!